Multi Display Issues

Hello,

I went through lots of articles on lots of resources this forum, Reddit, Stackoverflaw even became desperate enough to check Nvidia forums but was not able to

My hardware: Surface Book 2
GPU: GTX 1060
Screens:
3240x2160 Native
1920x1080 VGA
1920x1080 HDMI
Kernel: Microsoft Surface Book 2 - ArchWiki
OS: Plasma KDE

Xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 3240, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1620x1080+0+2160 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 317mm x 211mm
3240x2160 59.99*+
3200x1800 59.94
2880x1620 59.96 59.97
2560x1600 59.99 59.97
2560x1440 59.96 59.95
2048x1536 60.00
1920x1440 60.00
1856x1392 60.01
1792x1344 60.01
2048x1152 59.99 59.98 59.90 59.91
1920x1200 59.88 59.95
1920x1080 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
640x400 59.88 59.98
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
2560x1440 59.95 +
4096x2160 24.00 23.98
3840x2160 30.00 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98 24.00
1920x1200 59.95
2048x1080 60.00 48.00 24.00
1920x1080 60.00* 60.00 50.00 59.94 30.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.88
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x720 60.00 50.00 30.00 59.94 29.97 24.00 23.98
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DP-2-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2-3 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
1920x1080 60.00*+
1680x1050 59.95
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1280x800 59.81
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
640x480 59.94

inxi -g

Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] driver: N/A
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz 3: 1620x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.

mhwd -li
              NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE

video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime 2021.12.18 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI

Warning: No installed USB configs!

Problems:

  • Icons , Fonts are blurry on Surface Book 2 Screen
  • Mouse Pointer is flickering on both external monitors

What i did

  • Tried Wayland session (Works normally on double screen but once i connect third screen everything system is getting freezed, had no issues on ubuntu
  • Tried to decrease scaling to 100% instead of 200% and set custom rule for scaling xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.5x0.5 --output DP-2 --right-of eDP-1 --output HDMI-1 --right-of DP2 (This is my current setup)

Instead of scaling the screen, why don’t you lower its resolution?

This sounds like xwayland’s scaling issue, if this was happening in a wayland session.